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Hot Docs 2021: Zo Reken, One Of Ours claim top prizes
Emanuel Licha, Yasmine Mathurin and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers won honours at the annual doc fest By Kevin Ritchie
Courtesy of Hot Docs
Emanuel Licha s Zo Reken looks at the long aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
Directors Emanuel Licha, Yasmine Mathurin and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers have won the top Canadian film awards at the 2021 Hot Docs film festival.
At a livestreamed ceremony earlier this evening, Montreal’s Licha picked up the $10,000 Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award for Zo Reken, a portrait of Haitians and aid workers in Port-au-Prince dealing with the ongoing humanitarian crisis sparked by an earthquake 11 years ago.
Hot Docs to screen 219 documentaries from 66 countries
Miguel Ángel Blanca s
Opening with
Ann Shin s highly anticipated
A.rtificial I.mmortality, screening in the Canadian Spectrum selection along with 14 other titles, the 28th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival will present a total of 219 films from 66 countries across 12 sections online, from 29 April to 9 May.
The International Spectrum competitive section includes ten films, out of which half are European:
Annabel Verbeke s
Miguel Ángel Blanca s
Mohamed El Aboudi s
School of Hope (Finland/France/Morocco). These films will compete for Best International Feature Documentary Award and the Special Jury Prize, as well as the Emerging Filmmaker Award. The full list of films is here.